(Minghui.org) Greetings, Master! Greetings, fellow practitioners!
Minghui website has hosted an annual China Fahui for Dafa practitioners in China 22 times. At this final stage of the Fa-rectification, I’d like to report to Master and share with practitioners some of my experiences helping local people understand the facts of the persecution against Falun Dafa.
I live in a county outside Changchun City, Jilin Province. I used to be a bus driver. One day in 1997, while driving my bus to the Changchun train station square, I saw a large circle rotating in the sky, completely obscuring the sun. I was astonished and didn’t know what it was. Later on, I realized it was a Falun (law wheel). This was my first encounter with Falun Dafa. My wife began to practice Falun Dafa first. One time, I picked up her book Zhuan Falun II and read some of it. Master talked about Buddhas, Daos, and Gods in the book and pointed out the shortcomings of some religions. I thought the author sounded rather presumptuous, so I had some doubts and didn’t pursue the practice. That was my first impression of Master’s teachings.
In 1998, I read the book of teachings, Zhuan Falun. One Chinese character, “像”(xiàng, which means image), became an image of a man in a suit, looking at me and smiling. It was actually a very clear image of Master. I continued reading quietly. As I got to the end of the page, I looked at that character again and saw that the image had gradually faded. I realized that this book was from heaven, and I had always wanted to read a heavenly book!
After that, I couldn’t put Zhuan Falun down. Whenever I had spare time during work, I read it. The book often glowed with golden light; the more golden light it emitted, the more I wanted to read. Sometimes I saw the characters inside the book spinning. The more the characters spun, the more eager I was to read.
For a few days before the persecution began on July 20, 1999, I kept seeing visions of many people getting on crowded buses. Later, I heard that the government had banned the practice and would arrest practitioners. During the morning group exercises on July 20, I had visions of various kinds of divine beings in the sky. They flew near me, pressing their hands in front of their chests, then flew away—a truly magnificent sight. This strengthened my resolve to validate the Fa.
The next day, I took the bus to Changchun, the provincial capital, to appeal for justice for Dafa. However, police officers were guarding the local bus station, not letting Falun Dafa practitioners get on the bus. One of the bus drivers, who was an acquaintance, called out my name outside the bus station and offered to drive me and a few practitioners to Changchun without charge.
When I arrived at the provincial government building, many practitioners were already there. Later, I went to the People’s Square, and many practitioners were gathered there too. Many of us saw Faluns on site. The police surrounded us and dragged practitioners onto the buses, and sent us to a stadium. In the evening, I was escorted back to my local police station, then released.
At that time, none of our local practitioners had access to the Minghui website. I took a train twice to Jinzhou City, Liaoning Province, to pick up Minghui publications that we shared among local practitioners. Later, we learned how to access Minghui and connected ourselves with the overall process of Fa rectification.
I devoted myself entirely to Fa rectification. I slept fully clothed, ready to study the Fa or practice exercises whenever I could. When any new project came up, I eagerly jumped in to help. Once, after I finished Dafa work and returned home, Master encouraged me by showing me that the entire room was full of Faluns, even on all my pores.
Master gave me hints in various ways about going to Beijing to validate the Fa. Once in my dream, I saw a huge ship with Master standing at the bow wearing a black suit. A divine being urged me to get on board quickly. Another time, I saw in a vision with my eyes wide open, that someone in front of me urged me to go to Beijing. On another occasion, someone laid a map on the bed. Later, the map transformed into an image of Tiananmen Square. A voice gave me directions to get to Tiananmen Square by train.
I shared these hints with local practitioners, but none of them wanted to go with me, so I decided to go alone. However, that same night, while my wife and I were sitting on the bed, my wife’s body transformed into a mountain, and a bull’s head emerged from the location of her heart, staring at me. Then the mountain toppled backward, and my wife’s body appeared again. She was feeling unwell at the time, which I knew was to try to block me from going to Beijing. But she encouraged me to go.
So I brought my book Zhuan Falun, wore a Falun badge, and boarded the train to Beijing. I finished reading the entire book by the time the train got to Beijing. I arrived at Tiananmen Square and entered the gate. When a policeman asked me if I practiced Falun Dafa. I answered truthfully. Then the police arrested me and took me to the Tiananmen Police Station.
Later, staff from the Jilin Province Liaison Office in Beijing took me to their office, where there were already many practitioners. Later, over ten of us were escorted back to Changchun. I was then taken to a detention center in my county and released a few days later. I brought back my Falun badge and Zhuan Falun intact, which I realized later was truly miraculous.
After the trip to Beijing, we began using various ways to validate the Fa. Once we hung a loudspeaker on the town center’s TV tower, which broadcast the facts for an entire hour. We also made our own banners. Once, we made over two hundred banners at a practitioner’s home. We painted the words on each banner, so the room was full of a strong smell of paint. Just as we finished cleaning up, the police arrived, but they didn’t notice anything. I hung banners in places that were hard to reach, such as on tall power transmission towers and TV towers. I also hung banners in neighboring counties. Once, after hanging banners, I placed truth-clarifying pamphlets on some police cars.
I worked in a neighboring county for about two months as an ambulance driver for a newly opened hospital. Whenever I drove hospital staff around to distribute flyers advertising the hospital, I distributed Dafa materials instead.
When a deputy director of the Health Bureau wanted to use the ambulance to go to a meeting, I, as the driver, saw it as an opportunity to tell him about the persecution of Dafa. On the day of the trip, the director and several section chiefs came along. I handed him a Dafa booklet and asked him to take a look. After reading it, he gave it to the section chiefs, and I handed over more copies. They all took the booklets.
We also sprayed Dafa truth messages on the roads. Once, two local practitioners and I sprayed messages on the road bridge. Just as we finished, a police car drove toward us with a loud siren. The two practitioners moved to the side. I thought I must face the police alone to protect them. Holding the paint bucket in one hand and the brush in the other, I walked directly toward the police car, but the driver suddenly slammed on the brakes, then swerved away. Master protected me!
The officers in the local police station knew that I was responsible for many activities relating to Falun Dafa. They often arrested me and detained me for several days during the so-called “sensitive days,” when they were afraid I would do something.
Later, I made some display boards—first using thick cardboard, then switching to fabric. They were one meter wide and two meters long, containing truth-clarifying information. We put them anywhere people gathered, including the markets. Once, we even put them on an advertising bulletin board at the entrance to a government building.
We also distributed Dafa materials door to door, covering every household. I often covered the busy streets, even though there were more pedestrians, more police, and more undercover officers.
In 2003, Master commented on a Minghui article and instructed practitioners to publicly expose the local evildoers and document our own persecution experiences. After reading it, I traveled to another city to ask practitioners for help posting my experiences online. Later, we had our own local edition of Minghui Weekly. We produced it in large quantities and distributed it everywhere, covering our whole area, which effectively deterred the evil doers.
A director of our local police station approached a local practitioner and begged us to stop exposing him. He said that he could no longer hold his head up in the street.
On November 19, 2004, the Chinese Epoch Times newspaper published the Nine Commentaries on the Chinese Communist Party (later referred to as the Nine Commentaries, which comprehensively and systematically dissected the true history of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and revealed its evil nature. Exposing this to the Chinese people marked a new stage in the process of Fa rectification. With the Nine Commentaries paving the way, the wave of withdrawals from the CCP began. I took the initiative to distribute the Nine Commentaries in our local area.
I first brought 9,000 copies of the Nine Commentaries DVD from Changchun. Because some practitioners thought that the Nine Commentaries was getting involved in politics, not many practitioners helped. I distributed most of them myself, which took over a year.
Later, working with another practitioner, we produced about 5,000 printed copies of the Nine Commentaries. During that time, I drove a large bus during the day and printed the books at night, tirelessly.
Five or six of us practitioners often drove out together to distribute the booklets. Once, we went to the junction of five counties with over 2,000 copies of the Nine Commentaries. Two practitioners covered one village on foot, fully loaded up with enough copies for every household in the village.
Once, when one practitioner was distributing, a man came out of a house and grabbed the practitioner. I rushed over and pulled out a copy of the Nine Commentaries. I explained what we were doing and asked him to read the book carefully so he could understand the CCP’s nature. He paused, then muttered “Thank you,” and walked away. Master helped dissolve the danger and saved a being. People were actually waiting for the truth.
When I drove the bus, I frequently distributed truth materials to the passengers and talked to them. After the publication of the Nine Commentaries, I specifically studied it, then used the content for truth clarification. Once, the secretary of the Political and Legal Affairs Committee from a neighboring city got on my bus. I spoke to him, and he accepted what I said. Another time, a female police officer got on and sat in the back seat. After I clarified the truth to passengers, she spoke to me before I got off, and told me that she admired Dafa practitioners.
I worked with other practitioners, and together we distributed the Nine Commentaries throughout all the surrounding counties and towns, reaching every single household. Some even reached Inner Mongolia. Once in a vision, I saw Gods appearing before me, pressing their hands in respect!
When I learned about the satellites for receiving New Tang Dynasty (NTD) TV, I understood that it was a frontline project for validating the Fa and decided to start working on it.
I invested 2,000 yuan as initial capital and collaborated with other practitioners to install satellite dishes for local households. I didn’t seek to profit from this work and only charged the minimum cost.
We installed satellite dishes for many households. We provided free installations for village officials as a way to promote it. We also reached out to many households in neighboring counties and towns.
People enjoyed the NTD TV programs and were more willing to accept the truth about the persecution of Dafa.
In 2015, Dafa practitioners around the world filed lawsuits against Jiang Zemin, the mastermind behind the persecution of Dafa. Every day, NTD news updated the number of lawsuits that have been filed. When the number reached 400, I realized that I should file one too. Another local practitioner and I filed the lawsuits with our real names. At that time, the number of plaintiffs rose rapidly.
On June 5, 2024, Master published the article “The Ordeals Our Spiritual Discipline Faces.” We are Fa-rectification Dafa disciples reaching the final stage, and Master is observing our attitude toward the ordeals throughout the entire Fa-rectification period.
The CCP launched a propaganda war and legal battles against Master and Dafa towards the end of 2024. We should cultivate as diligently as ever during this time.
Some of us selected articles from the Minghui website to distribute among local practitioners, who responded positively and enthusiastically joined the battle. We previously sent righteous thoughts typically for 15 or 30 minutes, but we extended it even longer because of these ordeals. Some practitioners devoted significantly more time and energy to this. We had focused on doing practical work to assist with Fa-rectification in the past. But Fa-rectification transcends time and space, beyond the human dimension. What we can do to help is send righteous thoughts more frequently and with greater quality.
In addition to each practitioner sending extended righteous thoughts individually, we also organized for practitioners to do it together, so we could fully use our abilities bestowed by Master.
Master utilized the plans of the old forces, turning them against themselves, and arranged the Fa rectification process for Dafa practitioners. The process requires genuine practitioners to make good use of this arrangement and do what’s required to fulfill our vows.
Throughout this process, I constantly measured myself against Master’s teachings and did what Master asked us to do. I realized that Master has provided the assurance and has paved the way for Dafa practitioners to do the most righteous actions. No one is allowed to interfere, test, or persecute Dafa practitioners. It is through this righteous thought—that Fa-rectification is sacred and inviolable—that I can exert my utmost effort to break through all evil interference and destruction, maximizing and perfecting my role in assisting Master in rectifying the Fa and saving sentient beings.
Master continually showed me miracles, manifesting how genuine Dafa practitioners were Gods in the human world, assisting Master and rectifying the Fa.
In the very limited time ahead, I will heed Master’s words: the closer to the end, the more diligent I must be. Maintaining the same mindset I had at the beginning of cultivation, I will work with local practitioners to assist Master in ending the ordeals our practice faces.
(Selected submission for the 22nd China Fa Conference on Minghui.org)